TEXT OF MAY, 1988 STATEMENT TO THEN-U.S. SENATE MINORITY LEADER ROBERT DOLE:

Gordon C. Wong,
SPECIAL DIPLOMATIC ADVISER TO THE U.S. PRESIDENT,
SENIOR ADVISER TO THE YEAR OF THE CHILD,
P.O. Box 1236,
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, V6C 2T1,
May, 1988.

U.S. SENATE MINORITY LEADER Robert Dole,
c/o President Ronald Reagan.

Sir: As the attachments confirm, since i sent you the January 14, 1988 registered letter #771, i've been receiving correspondence from other parties in the international community who would have "concerns" about how Washington and Ottawa ultimately decide to deal with my "International Diplomatic Work...on a direct basis."
Given the role you played in the original 1978 work i prepared and contributed to on behalf of American and Canadian interests, i decided you should be advised of these developments.

I have not directly submitted to President Reagan copies of (all) the contents of my registered letter to you.
Given certain opening remarks by President Reagan prefacing his January 25, 1988 "State of the Union Address", i assume you did.
If such is not the case, i am submitting this statement to you to request that you do so.

The affixation here came to my attention on the date of its publication.
I'm aware of what Larry Speakes' book reveals about President Reagan's reading "priorities."
There are copies of two other comic strips included in what may be my final report as SPECIAL DIPLOMATIC ADVISER TO THE U.S. PRESIDENT for President Reagan.
Almost a decade after i first contacted him about my work, and more than seven years after i sent him the April 30, 1981 registered letter #616 (in part on behalf of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force*)--i've yet to get the instructions from him i've time and again requested telling me how he would have me complete the "International Diplomatic Work...on a direct basis" to his satisfaction.
As you presumably realize, i telephoned the Carter White House on January 19, 1981 to see whether President Carter intended to instruct me to terminate the work on behalf of American governmental interests. No such instruction was provided, but instead i was given Jimmy Carter's Russell Building address in Atlanta to continue communications with him.
The reason was and remains obvious, sir.
The American diplomatic hostages in Iran were not released until minutes after Jimmy Carter left office and Ronald Reagan took office as his successor as U.S. President.
Given that the prosecutions of the "Irangate" conspirators are pending, and it's unlikely they won't in their defenses refer to their "concerns" for the hostages in Lebanon as justification for their actions--also considering that nine Americans and about twenty innocent people overall remain hostages in the Middle East...what President Reagan now does in regard to my SPECIAL DIPLOMATIC ADVISER TO THE U.S. PRESIDENT authority seems very timely.

In 1985 submissions to you via Senator Kennedy, i reminded you of certain reasons why the decision was made not to take credit by name for what came to be known as "Reaganomics". In view of the underlying relationship between the "fiscal restraint" programs undertaken by the U.S. Government and British Columbia Government as were planned in 1978 and the necessary "conditions of peace" maintained by governments beyond mere reductions in nuclear weapons levels, i have recently (again) explained the original basis of understanding i had regarding this relationship.
I trust you see why i'm including this affixation.
It's not that he reads them "first." It's what else he reads and does.

As always,



Gordon C. Wong


-ON THE SUBJECT OF MY REPRESENTATION ON BEHALF OF THE METROPOLITAN TORONTO POLICE FORCE IN 1981, THERE IS AN EXPLANATION CONTAINED IN THE FOOTNOTE OF WHAT YOU FIND IF YOU TAKE YOUR NEXT FOOTSTEP HERE.